Improvement in hasp for trunk-locks



'NITED STATES PATENT FFIIGE.v

NATHAN I. RYDER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HASP FOR TRUNK-LOCKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 83,883, dated November l0, 1868.

Be it known that I, NATHAN P. RYD'ER, of Boston, in the county of Suiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Hasp for Trunk-Locks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which-1 Figure l represents a front view of a trunk lock and hasp embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

The fastenings of covers to trunks, as commonly constructed, consist of a lock and hasp, the former being attached to the lower portion ofthe trunk, and the hasp to the cover of the same, in such a manner that when the bolt of the lock is passed through the hasp the latter is held rigidly, thus rendering the eye of the hasp liable to be broken when the trunk is moved about or violently handled.

The object of my invention is to obviate this difficulty; and 'the invention consists in connecting the eye, through which the bolt passes, to the hasp in such a manner as to admit of its turning in the same, so as to allow the cover of the trunk to be moved or shifted without breaking the hasp from the lock.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the front plate of the lock, securely attached to the trunk. G D represent the two portions of a hasp connected together by the hinge b. The

upper part, G, of the hasp is attached to the cover of the trunk.

E, Fig. 2, represents the eye, through which the bolt passes, and is connected to the lower part of the hasp in such a manner as to allow the hasp to turn freely on the same, as indicated at E; and thus, in case of any movement of the' cover independently of the trunk, the

hasp will yield in one direction or the other without breaking or snapping the eye or injuring the bolt.

Having thus described my invention, what I l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters NATHAN P. RYDER.

Witnesses:

M. S. G. WILBE, E. L. DYER. 

